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‘Doubt’ (pub. 19.03.13-20:37). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-how-make-our-ideas-clear-1.
Term: 
Doubt
Quote: 

… the action of thought is excited by the irritation of doubt, and ceases when belief is attained; so that the production of belief is the sole function of thought. All these words, however, are too strong for my purpose. It is as if I had described the phenomena as they appear under a mental microscope. Doubt and Belief, as the words are commonly employed, relate to religious or other grave discussions. But here I use them to designate the starting of any question, no matter how small or how great, and the resolution of it.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1878). How to Make Our Ideas Clear. Popular Science Monthly, 12, 286-302.
References: 
CP 5.394
Date of Quote: 
1878
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